Open Game Table Vol. 2 is coming!
Wahoo! This is great news! Jonathan Jacobs has decided that he wants to go forward with OGT Vol. 2 for Summer 2010. This time, the OGT will be released simultaneously as an ebook...
December 7, 2009
Stargazer
Lazy Friday Video Post: Game Geeks #124 Fantasy Craft
Sorry for posting another Game Geeks video, but I had good reasons for doing so: a) the video is a review of the awesome d20 based Fantasy Craft game and b) the video...
December 4, 2009
RPG News for December 4th 2009
I found a few newsworthy items I want to share with you guys: Diaspora discount Perhaps you remember my post about Diaspora, the FATE-powered Hard-SF game. Fred Hicks now posted on his blog...
December 4, 2009
Ask The Readers: Sex in Gaming
A lot of RPG books contain artwork of lightly clad females, the chainmail biki is a common trope of most fantasy games and especially a lot of game book covers were obviously made...
December 2, 2009
Sex Advice from D&D players
Recently I stumbled upon an article that gives sex advice written by D&D gamers. The article is a bit unclear on who has asked the questions and who were the person (or persons)...
December 2, 2009
[Blog Carnival] A look back at my goals for 2009
On January 9th 2009 I wrote a post called “Goals for 2009” as part of that month’s blog carnival. It was about what things I wanted to achieve in 2009, both in gaming,...
December 1, 2009
[German RPGs] “Das Schwarze Auge” 1st Edition in English
Recently commenter Elias Eight requested an overview article about German RPGs. I really think this could be an interesting topic for a series of posts, so I started doing some research on the...
November 30, 2009
Lazy Friday Video Post: Game Geeks #123 Dread
I’ve heard a lot about this game before and when I noticed that Kurt Wiegel had reviewed it on his YouTube channel, I thought this might be an appropriate video for today’s video...
November 27, 2009
Get the Open Game Table for $4.99 until November 30th
Jonathan Jacobs has reduced the price of the PDF version of the Open Game Table: The Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs, Vol. 1 to just $4.99 until the end of the month! If...
November 27, 2009
Cyberpunk!
Inspired by Triple Ace Games’ cyberpunk rules I would love to write a Cyberpunk setting of my own, but alas I can’t decide what kind of setting I would prefer. First off, there’s...
November 26, 2009
Chimera 2.0 – worth a look? (Updated)
Yesterday fellow RPG blogger Greywulf wrote about the new Chimera 2.0, a quick-to-play multi-genre RPG. After reading his post I headed to the Welsh Piper website and was quite shocked that they want...
November 25, 2009
Freebie: Daring Tales of the Sprawl Cyberpunk rules
In October Triple Ace Games released a free cyberpunk rules supplement for Savage Worlds that is intended to be used with their “Daring Tales of the Sprawls” adventure line. But from what I’ve...
November 24, 2009
I like this!
Inspired by what Berin Kinsman wrote some hours ago on Facebook, I added the WP Likes 2.0 plugin to my blog. It allows readers to “like” posts on the fly if they find...
November 24, 2009
Roleplaying in the Dune universe
Frank Herbert’s Dune is one of my favorite SF books. I’ve read several of the sequels but in my opinion the first book was the best. My father owned a hardcover version of...
November 23, 2009
Lazy Friday Video Post: Ballad of the Monster Manual
Usually I don’t post two Lazy Friday Video Posts on one day, but this is a special exception! The following video, that I found on BoingBoing a few minutes ago, is just too...
November 20, 2009
Lazy Friday Video Post: Dungeons & Dragons TV series intro
I remember having seen a few episodes of this series a few years back and I still don’t understand why anyone thought this TV show was a good idea. And by the way,...
November 20, 2009
Diaspora
Recently I heard about the hard science-fiction RPG powered by FATE called Diaspora. I am a big fan of everything science-fiction and so I read a few reviews, checked out the official website...
November 20, 2009